Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 376 - 376 371 The Sheep has Become a Spirit

Chapter 376: Chapter 371 The Sheep has Become a Spirit Chapter 376: Chapter 371 The Sheep has Become a Spirit If it weren’t for someone close, definitely not a single word would be spoken about such matters.

Jiang Yan and the second brother expressed their gratitude to Auntie Zhao, saying they would definitely contact her sister to arrange the school transfer and leave here as soon as possible.

Auntie Zhao was very relieved to see that they took her advice to heart. She comforted Jiajia a few more words not to be sad anymore, and then she left.

Jiajia had never thought about going to her sister’s place before, after all, her sister was still just a college student, and didn’t have the financial capability to support her. Going there would only be a burden to her sister.

So she didn’t want to.

But Auntie Zhao’s words couldn’t help but remind her of the year her parents had an accident, when the Mao family came over to drive her and her grandma out. At that time, they came to the house and smashed all the pots and pans, and it was the village secretary who brought people to drive them away from here.

Over the years, those people gradually moved into the city center of Beijing, selling vegetables or setting up stalls, anyway, they all had their small businesses. There was not a single person with the surname Mao remaining in the village, so up to now they still didn’t know that Grandma Mao had passed away.

If they knew…

Jiajia lowered her head, and tears uncontrollably started flowing again.

She had lived here for sixteen years, and even though the days were always hard, her father, mother, and grandma were always genuine with her. This was her home, and even if only she was left, she couldn’t bear to leave.

But Jiajia knew she had to go.

If she didn’t leave, her brother, Brother Jiang Yan, and Sister Jiajia would all worry about her, and she would only be a burden to them.

The next day, Jiajia returned to school to discuss the transfer with her teacher, while Xu Qian had already begun helping her look for schools in Yunzhou. As soon as she completed the transfer procedures here, she could leave immediately.

The second elder brother accompanied her, because he wanted to discuss with the teacher whether it was possible to keep his school registration here and then come back to take the college entrance exam in his senior year.

Normally, such matters were not permitted, but Jiajia’s situation was special, and transferring school registration outside of Beijing indeed wasn’t easy. In the end, the head teacher helped her negotiate with the school to retain her registration here, so that she could come back for the college entrance exam.

Three days later, the second elder brother saw Jiajia off on the train to Yunzhou.

Before she left, Jiajia clung to the second elder brother’s sleeve, reluctant to let go. He ruffled her hair and said with a smile, “Yunzhou is actually my hometown, and there are plenty of delicious and fun things there. You should go enjoy the city with your sister for a while, and when I have time to go back, I will take you to my house.”

It had been over a year since he last visited Jianghai Town, and the grass on his parents’ graves must be very long by now. He used to clear it every now and then, and would go burn offerings during Tomb-Sweeping Day and New Year. Although he would feel depressed for several days after each visit, not going would be even more unbearable.

Aside from him, perhaps no one else remembered his parents anymore.

“Brother, you… please don’t forget me,” Jiajia implored.

“How could I? You’re our sissy we’ve acknowledged,” he reassured.

Jiang Yan and Mu Jiawen had classes today, so Jiajia didn’t ask them to come.

Of course, that was just one reason. Another was that she had some things she wanted to say to the second elder brother alone. Still, when she heard him say the “sissy we’ve acknowledged,” her eyes dimmed, and she looked down to hide the disappointment on her face.

The second elder brother thought she was reluctant to leave Beijing, her home, and also felt uneasy about the unfamiliar and unknown place that was Yunzhou. So he comforted her, “Jiajia, don’t be too attached to a home or a place. I think sometimes people are more important than places. Like me, the moment I heard my brother was going to college, I had to follow him here no matter what. It turned out my choice was the right one. If I hadn’t followed, I would probably still be stuck in our small town, running that internet café barely making a thousand a month, still ignorant, and wouldn’t even dream about taking the Adult College Entrance Exam and getting into university.

You’re the same. Xu Qian is your biological sister. You have to believe that where your sister is, that’s where home is.”

Jiajia looked up again with a smile on her face. As the train whistled into the station, she waved goodbye to the second elder brother and, carrying her not-too-big suitcase, boarded the train.

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Time flew by, and December was upon us.

This year, Mu Jiawen celebrated her 19th birthday in a simple manner, with just a family meal. Most of her birthday presents were red envelopes, and she almost got tired of receiving them.

Last year, for her 18th birthday, Mu Chenyan didn’t inform Yu Zexiao. After he found out, he complained about it for a long time and later gave Mu Jiawen a set of pearl jewelry as a belated gift.

Since Yu Yue sometimes visited their home this year and got along well with Yu Heng, Yu Feng, and Mu Jiawen, they informed him and his son the day before her birthday. She also reminded Yu Yue to bring his mother along.

She had met Mo Wanyi once; she seemed nice, at least more reliable than Yu Zexiao.

Jiang Yan cooked a full table of dishes, just like last year. On his own birthday, May 1st, they had celebrated at the Dexin Building, with a private room booked by Mu Chenyan. It couldn’t be helped; she and Xiaosi would have liked to cook a full table of dishes too, but they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to finish it all.

As the last dish was almost ready, a commotion erupted from the backyard.

Jiang Yan asked his second brother to watch the pot and hurried out to see what was going on.

Because of the cold weather, Xiaohei had been moved to live in the greenhouse, and he was standing inside, gazing out at the backyard with a pair of big eyes, tilting his head to the side.

As Jiang Yan passed by, he paused when he saw Xiaohei do that, spontaneously thinking that its head-tilted posture somewhat resembled Mu Jiawen’s. He cursed inwardly, damn, this goat has really become cunning!

Before he even reached the backyard, a boy’s familiar cries almost pierced the sky—

“Ah…”

“Murder, an adult is killing a child…”

Jiang Yan frowned; how had that brat managed to come over again?

After being beaten and paying compensation last time, he still hadn’t learned his lesson?

Upon entering the backyard, he found the Yu siblings and Mu Chenyan standing by the inside of the fence, looking out. The brat was not in the backyard but outside it.

The person hitting him wasn’t Mu Jiawen, but a middle-aged man with a face darkened in anger, twisting the boy’s arms. Unable to move his arms, the boy kept kicking at the man while shouting, “Murder, an adult is killing a child… let me go, let me go, ahhh…”

His screams were intense and shrill, annoyingly painful to the ears.

Jiang Yan moved next to Mu Jiawen and asked quietly, “What happened?”

Mu Jiawen shook her head, “Not very sure. We were in the greenhouse looking at Xiaohei when those two ran by. They came up to here, and then this guy caught the little rascal, and now this.”

So what actually happened, Mu Jiawen was also quite curious.

The man wasn’t the little rascal’s father; she had seen his dad before because she had made the principal, the brat’s grandfather, compensate their family twenty thousand yuan. After about three days, his father came over to argue with their family, questioning what kind of flower was worth twenty thousand?

Mu Chenyan just happened to be at home at the time, and she already felt heartache over her flowers. Pointing to three barren camellia bushes, she said they cost fifty thousand when purchased and had been carefully tended for half a year before they bloomed. Now, they were ruined like this, and who knew if they could bloom again?

Since he thought the compensation requested by his daughter was too little, and since he was the child’s guardian, fine, compensate with another thirty thousand, and you can take the flowerpots with you.